‘I wanna kill’: terror teens’ alleged plans revealed

Planned attacks involving firearms, safe houses and machetes will form part of the case against a group of boys, some accused of planning a terrorist attack over an encrypted messaging app.

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel returned on Sunday to the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney’s where he was stabbed, wearing an eye patch and revealing he had lost the sight in his eye. Picture: Supplied

Planned attacks involving shotguns, safe houses, machetes and hunting knives will be part of the prosecution’s case against a group of boys, some accused of planning a terrorist attack over encrypted messaging systems and targeting Jewish people and non-Muslims.

A police fact sheet seen by The Australian detailing the planned terror attack alleges four of the boys, aged 15 to 17, discuss obtaining firearms and establishing a “stash house” in regards to a “Kuffar plan”, over encrypted messaging app Signal.

While the boys initially refer to guns as “nerf guns”, they later speak of buying a “shotty”, with one of the boys claiming he can get two or three for $2000-$4000.

“There is a strong inference available that these communi­cations are directly about sourcing firearms,” the facts sheet said.

In a series of messages allegedly sent by one 15-year-old four days after the alleged stabbing of Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, in a Signal group titled “Plans”, the boy says he “really want(s) to target the yahood (Jewish people) … we will plan it”.

One day later, a 16-year-old boy says “we can’t f..k around now cuz … this is serious shit”.

Another 16-year-old replies: “I know it is … but I wanna die and I wanna kill … I’m just excited.”

Another says: “We’re gonna kill dw (don’t worry) … but we need patience

“Is your plan to get caught or die or escape?” the second 16-year-old asks.

In January, another boy, aged 15, also charged with preparing a terrorist act, said he wanted to “do an attack on France so bad”.

High profile Sydney solicitor Ahmed Dib is representing the 15-year-old.

Seven people were arrested after search warrants at 13 locations were executed in Sydney and Goulburn on April 24, 2024, as part of a Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) investigation. Picture: NSW Police

Another boy said in a phone call on April 21 that he wanted to stab a person because he is “a f..kin’ kafir dog”.

Earlier that day, the same boy allegedly said over Snapchat he really wanted to “do a attack now too because I have so much hatred for these kuffar it’s not funny” and “I wanna do jihad now”.

Replying to him, another boy said: “If u do jihad now in Sydney … u will be in jail the rest of ur life bro. It’s easy to do fire bro … but shooting and bombs … too hard”

The boys shared screenshots of where they could purchase knives.

The police fact sheet claims a 16-year-old mentioned an Islamic State website that had recipes to make weapons while concerned that an undercover Australian Federal Police officer might have infiltrated the site.

“How is a fed gonna have access to the dawla islamiyya (Islamic State) server? With real members that have recipes and everything,” he allegedly wrote.

It appears police had several of the boys under surveillance, with detailed accounts of their movements in the days after the Assyrian attack.

On the evening of April 22, some of the boys started panicking when they realised a friend had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a bottle shop worker, and that police were in possession of a phone that had “planning”.

“Yeah we’re gone cuz. For planning attacks and this and that we’re gone bro,” the first boy said.

High-profile Sydney solicitor Ahmed Dib.

“You know we’re actually gone for a long time if they (go) through his phone yeah? You know that yeah? Because that Signal group chat you know if the(y) go through it we’re gone for a long time.

The second boy replies: “Just say we were young and shit, f..k”.

“Bro you can’t say that especially since we were planning big stuff bro. Its conspiracy for … conspiracy for a terror I think,” the first boy replies. “They will know we were not just conspiracy they will know we will do it bro coz of (Assyrian attacker). If (he) hadn’t done anything then different story but because (he) done something and he acted on it then …”

Two days later, police swooped, allegedly seizing a knife, mobile phones, laptops, extendible baton, machete, a PlayStation 4, hard drives, two hand drawn ISIS flags, a large hunting knife and a tomahawk.

Bishop Emmanuel returned on Sunday to a standing ovation at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney’s where he was stabbed, wearing an eye patch and revealing he had lost the sight in his eye.

Additional reporting: Joanna Panagopoulos